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Maukah saya menjadi petani?

Bekerja di tempat penggilingan beras, Sulawesi Selatan – Charina Chazali

Para pemuda yang tinggal di desa berbasis pertanian menjelaskan keraguan dan aspirasi mereka tentang masa depan di bidang pertanian

Young shopping mall workers on a lunch break near Blok M, South Jakarta - Remco van Loenen

Young Indonesians display considerable resourcefulness in coping with difficult pathways into work, but more comprehensive policies are needed to improve their job prospects

A team of volunteers waiting at a health centre for work - Schut

Struggling in their transition from education to work, educated young people in rural Flores are often both dependent on and critical of local social support networks

Youth in Indonesia are facing uncertain school-to-work transition - Remco van Loenen

Indonesia needs to create better pathways from school to work

Working in a rice mill, South Sulawesi - Charina Chazali

Rural youth in rice-growing villages explain their doubts and aspirations about a future in agriculture

Companies’ age-based hiring criteria for fresh graduates narrow young men’s opportunities to access entry-level jobs and traineeships in the steel industries - Suzanne Naafs

Entering a competitive work environment, young men in Cilegon find their ambitions for employment hampered

Building on his passion for books, this young man engages in irregular work at a community learning centre - Wenty Minza

Trying to secure a government job, educated youth in Pontianak are rethinking the meaning of work and middle class success

Directory of creative people, communities, companies and institutions, in directory.indonesiakreatif.net - indonesiakreatif.net

Campaigns to promote creative industries promise new avenues of entrepreneurship for creative youth, but real career options remain uncertain

Working parents in Jakarta head off in the morning to take the kids to school and go to work - Mita Pahlevi

Educated urban youth continue to express gendered work–family expectations

The waste emergency

Jun 11, 2019 - ROLF HAJEK

Government, producers and the public must all cooperate to tackle Indonesia’s waste problems

Bogus redemption

Jun 02, 2019 - MUHTAR HABIBI

Mudik forms a bogus redemption for many precarious workers amid a lack of decent jobs in both rural and urban areas

Review: Bridges of Friendship

May 17, 2019 - ANITA DEWI

An excellent reminder of the strength and importance of relationships between people of different cultures

Aging remarkably

May 16, 2019 - DUNCAN GRAHAM

Tati (Tatik) Soepijarniwati, 86 years, seems too small, too slight and too old to agitate / Author

A lifelong activist and retired midwife is teaching her peers to stay engaged… and not burden their children

Review: Flowers from Universe

May 06, 2019 - LAURIE MARGOT ROSS

Consort seated at spinning wheel, c.1910. Reproduced in CM Pleyte, De Inlandsche nijverheid in West-Java als social-ethnologisch verschijnsel. Vol. 2, 1911. Batavia: Javasche Boekhandel en Drukkerij.

Textiles from Java

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Maukah saya menjadi petani?

Para pemuda yang tinggal di desa berbasis pertanian menjelaskan keraguan dan aspirasi mereka tentang masa depan di bidang pertanian

Youth employment prospects and aspirations

Young Indonesians display considerable resourcefulness in coping with difficult pathways into work, but more comprehensive policies are needed to improve their job prospects

Underemployed ambitions

Struggling in their transition from education to work, educated young people in rural Flores are often both dependent on and critical of local social support networks

Making their way